vello
A GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.
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Vello is a GPU compute-centric 2D graphics rendering engine written in Rust that uses wgpu for GPU access and can render large 2D scenes with interactive or near-interactive performance. It fills the same role as vector graphics renderers like Skia and Cairo, providing tools to render shapes, images, gradients, and text through a PostScript-inspired API, but achieves better performance by leveraging the GPU through prefix-sum algorithms to parallelize work typically handled sequentially on the CPU. The project is maintained by Linebender and is used as the rendering backend for Xilem, a Rust GUI toolkit. Glifo, a companion library within the same repository, provides specialized APIs for efficiently rendering glyphs and paint styles like underline and strikethrough.
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- Raph Levien502 commits
- Laurenz Stampfl269 commits
- Chad Brokaw197 commits
- Arman Uguray171 commits
- Daniel McNab171 commits
- Bruce Mitchener157 commits
- Tom Churchman72 commits
- Elias Naur71 commits
- Alex Gemberg53 commits
- Kaur Kuut47 commits
- Taj Pereira27 commits
- Nico Burns25 commits
- Spencer C. Imbleau23 commits
- Andrew Jakubowicz19 commits
- Tatsuyuki Ishi14 commits
- Spencer C. Imbleau, M.Sc. (he/him)14 commits
- sagudev10 commits
- Thomas Smith9 commits
- msiglreith9 commits
- Lixou7 commits
- Brian Merchant7 commits
- Sam6 commits
- Ishi Tatsuyuki6 commits
- Aaron Muir Hamilton4 commits
- Olivier FAURE4 commits
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- Euclid Ye3 commits
- matt rice3 commits
- John Kåre Alsaker3 commits
- Rose Hudson3 commits